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We wouldn't have non-wild animals if noone had started feeding them.
by Tepix 4y ago
We wouldn't have non-wild animals if noone had started feeding them.
- voakbasda 4y agoIn many places it is now outright illegal to feed wildlife. Humanity’s period of whole species domestication has passed.
- astrange 4y agoIIRC dogs may have domesticated themselves by coming to visit us to eat our poop, not our hand feeding.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoI realize that all this is conjectural, but: Why is that more likely than just "eating the bones, skin, feet, and other animal parts the humans didn't eat" ? Either is more likely than "hand feeding" since that takes a pretty tamed animal.
- astrange 4y agoHunter gatherers eat the whole animal. Who’s throwing out skin and feet? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/202008/did-eating-human-poop-play-role-in-the-evolution-dogs https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/20200...
- Cupertino95014 4y agothanks. New name for a restaurant for dogs: The Coprophagia Cafe
- 11235813213455 4y ago"have animals" is very anthropocentrist